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By Melissa Nix - 12:00 am

UC Davis announced on Tuesday that it has received a $16 million Gates Foundation grant to support research in the prevention of child malnutrition.

Sutter Health seeks city approval for Elk Grove hospital

By Loretta Kalb - 12:00 am

Sutter Health is seeking a pivotal city approval for Elk Grove's first community hospital, part of a 488,000-square-foot, tech-friendly medical campus that will ease the stay of some short-term patients.

Sutter Roseville to debut new physical rehabilitation center

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A new, full-service, 106,000-square-foot physical rehabilitation center will debut today at Sutter Roseville Medical Center, according a hospital news release.

Meth robs, he restores

By Sam McManis - Sunday, November 16 2008 - 12:00 am

Toothless yet not hopeless, Chris Baugus tugged on his red ball cap and hesitantly opened his mouth at the urging of his dentist, Dr. Mitchell Goodis.

Shush! It's quiet time in the hospital

By Sam McManis - Sunday, November 16 2008 - 12:00 am

Two UC Davis medical students, giggling and gossiping, strode through the double doors of the seventh- floor pediatric unit and headed toward a nurse's station.

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Scientists find new penguin, extinct for 500 years

By RAY LILLEY - 1:16 am

Researchers studying a rare and endangered species of penguin have uncovered a previously unknown species that disappeared about 500 years ago.

A look at items lost in space

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - 4:21 pm

It's not easy holding on to a small bag some 200 miles above Earth.

Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells

By MARIA CHENG - 4:16 pm

Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.

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Lost tool bag forces changes to planned spacewalks

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - 3:31 pm

Flight controllers were revamping plans Wednesday for the remaining spacewalks planned during space shuttle Endeavour's visit to the international space station, after a crucial tool bag floated out to space during a repair trip.

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